European Institutions

  • UK Considers Including Judicial Review in HRA Reform

    December 07, 2015

    The UK Government has announced that it is delaying plans to replace its Human Rights Act ("HRA") with a British Bill of Rights, and thus to weaken the link between British courts and the European Court of Human Rights, as it considers replacing review by the Strasbourg court with constitutional review by a domestic supreme or constitutional court.

  • ECtHR Finds Inspection of Bank Statements Violated Rights

    December 07, 2015

    The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") held that a Portuguese prosecutor's consultation of a lawyer's bank statements during an investigation for tax fraud violated the lawyer's right to respect for private life under the European Convention on Human Rights.

  • Greece Receives Threats of Schengen Suspension

    December 04, 2015

    The BBC reports that government officials have informally threatened Greece with a suspension of its membership in the passport-free European travel area the Schengen Zone in response to the country's alleged failure to adequately deal with an influx of migrants.

  • CoE Criticizes Hungarian Response to Migrants

    December 04, 2015

    Council of Europe ("CoE") Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks has said that the response of Hungary to the influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa "falls short" based on the government's criminalization of undocumented migration and return of many of the migrants to Serbia.

  • CoE Seeks Increased Scrutiny of Migrant Rights

    December 04, 2015

    Warning of ill treatment of migrants at border crossings and in migrant camps, Secretary General of the Council of Europe ("CoE") Thorbjørn Jagland has announced that the CoE is examining ways in which it can increase its monitoring of the human rights of migrants and refugees entering CoE member countries.

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